Production

Electricity

In 2016, a total of 1,450 gigawatt-hours of electricity were produced from sewage gas of sewage treatment plants in Germany. Compared with 2015, this was a 3.9% increase. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that sewage gas accounted for roughly 1% of the total electricity produced from renewable energy sources in 2016.

Approximately 648 billion kilowatt hours of electricity were produced in Germany in 2016, 29% of which came from renewable energy sources. Green electricity was generated mainly from wind power (11.9%), biomass (7.0%) and photovoltaics (5.9%).

In 2015 the local units of mining and manufacturing produced 50 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity. The reports that this is a share of 10.4% of the gross electricity production in Germany, including the public power plants, as recorded by the official statistics agencies. The share of industrial electricity in the gross electricity production reported is by 1.8 percentage points higher than in 2005. In the first place, the industrial power plants meet internal demand, but in many instances electricity is supplied to other local units or exported to the public electricity grid.

Heat

In 2015, roughly 157 terawatt hours (TWh) of heat were supplied by the network operators. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was a year-on-year increase of 4.7%. The main reason for the increase was the weather which was slightly colder than a year earlier when it was very mild. As a result, especially households required more heat.